The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.
Popular short fiction writer Lavie Tidhar gathers some of his best work in one collection. Stories that are infused with centuries of tradition and painted with Hebrew mythology. We meet Tzaddik as he faces off against a vengeful angel intent on sending the Fallen to hell. The s…
This collection aims to display the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. It includes stories by authors including Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Rudyard Kipling.
The Oxford book of short stories
by Welty, Eudora, Twain, Mark, James, Henry, Bates, H. E., (Herbert Ernest), Bierce, Ambrose, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Henry, O., White, Patrick, Updike, John, Crane, Stephen, O'Connor, Frank, De la Mare, Walter, Lardner, Ring, Pritchett, V. S., (Victor Sawdon), Scott, Walter, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Poe, Edgar Allan, Harte, Bret, Conrad, Joseph, Kipling, Rudyard, Saki, Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), Anderson, Sherwood, Coppard, A. E., (Alfred Edgar), Joyce, James, Mansfield, Katherine, Porter, Katherine Anne, O'Flaherty, Liam, Faulkner, William, Hemingway, Ernest, Bowen, Elizabeth, O'Faoláin, Seán, Callaghan, Morley, Narayan, R. K., Sansom, William, Lavin, Mary, Cheever, John, Lessing, Doris, O'Connor, Flannery, Trevor, William
Gathers stories from the U.S., England, and Ireland by such noted writers as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Conrad, Joyce, O'Flaherty, Lessing, and Updike.
A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these stories demonstrate…
"Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction offers an examination of Irish short stories written over the last eighty years that have treated the Troubles, Ireland's intractable conflict that arose out of its relationship to England. Read chronologically, the stories provi…